Catamenial bandage.



PATENTED MAR. 17, 1908.

M. E. DOYLE. CATAMENIAL BANDAGE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 2.1-906.

prefer toform of a UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARY EMMA DOYLE, O1 CONSTABLEVILLE, NEW YORK.

GATAMENIAL BANDAGE.

foundation or support carrying a facing of I absorbent .cotton inclosedwithin gauze or netting or the like, attached in some suitable way tothe foundation or support.

The object of my invention is to provide a sanitary towel or bandagewhich will be more efficient, satisfactory and cleanly in use than thosenow in common use.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of asuitable foundation strip or support; Fig. 2 is a face view of thebandage; Fig. 3 is a transverse section drawn to a larger scale.

A'is the foundation piece or support which I fold of woven goods. Thisfoundation piece may be of any convenient size and thickness. In thedrawings I have indicated it as folded to four thicknesses. (rossstitching as at a (I may be added to keep the folds in place, and theinner lines of stitching a may also serve to indicate the points ofattachment for the facing material. These facing materials arepreferably of two kinds, a front piece (7 of absorbent cotton made upinto a roll and a backing layer B of non-absorbent cotton, which lattermay be approximately the full width of the foundation piece. The roll ofabsorbent cotton C is considerably less in width, say an inch and a halfless in width, than the layer of non-absorbent cotton. I prefer to makethe nonabsorbent Specification of Letters Patent. Application filedApril 2,

Patented March 17, 1908.

1906. Serial No. 309,554.

layer also longer than the absorbent roll. 5 The rolling of the fitsabsorbing capacity. These two facing materials B and C are held in placeby an in- !closing wrapping of very open netting or gauze D of suitablewoven or knitted or netted textile material, and which for convenience Iwill designate as open netting. The facing materials thus made of cottonmay be attached to the foundation piece by safety pins or any otherconvenient means. An important feature of my invention conl sists inmaking this open netting nonabsorbent, as by oiling the netting withcotton seed oil or in any other way. For instance, the netting may bewoven, knitted or netted I from yarn made of cotton from wluch the 1natural oil has not been removed. This nonlabsorbent netting will allowfluid to pass l through its meshes freely to the contained roll ofabsorbent cotton, without itself absorbing the fluid, whereas withordinary gauze the capillary attraction'will draw the l fluid down tothe foundation piece and under the layers of cotton. With my improvedconstruction, no fluid will pass, under ordinary conditions, furtherthan to the upper surface ofthe non-absorbent layer of cotton.

I claim as my invention 1. A catamenial bandage having a body ofabsorbent material and an inclosing open netting of non-absorbentmaterial.

2. A ca-tamenial bandage, having a. foun dation piece with a backinglayer thereon of non-absorbent cotton, a facing of absorbent cotton, anda non absorbent open netting, inclosing the two said cotton parts.

MARY EMMA DOYLE.

Witnesses:

T. J. (.RoFooT, GEO. W. MoRsE.

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